Quetzalia
| Quetzalia | |
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| Quetzalia contracta | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Celastrales |
| Family: | Celastraceae |
| Subfamily: | Celastroideae |
| Genus: | Quetzalia Lundell |
| Species | |
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Quetzalia are a genus of flowering plants in the staff vine and bittersweet family Celastraceae, native to Mexico and Central America. They can be trees, shrubs or lianas. Cyrus Longworth Lundell split them off from Microtropis in 1970, overriding his own 1939 findings.
Species
Eight species are accepted:
- Quetzalia contracta (Lundell) Lundell
- Quetzalia ilicina (Standl. & Steyerm.) Lundell
- Quetzalia mayana (Lundell & L.O.Williams) Lundell
- Quetzalia occidentalis (Loes. ex Donn.Sm.) Lundell
- Quetzalia pauciflora Lundell
- Quetzalia reynae Lundell
- Quetzalia schiedeana (Loes.) Lundell
- Quetzalia stipitata (Lundell) Lundell
References
- ↑ Wrightia 4: 137 (1970)
- 1 2 "Quetzalia Lundell". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 1 April 2026.
- ↑ Kubitzki, Klaus (11 November 2013). The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants: Flowering Plants. Dicotyledons: Celastrales, Oxalidales, Rosales, Cornales, Ericales. Vol. VI. Springer. p. 52. ISBN 9783662072578.